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DAY 15: Robot loses the Love War (& a comic-in-progress)
I was staring at some photocopies of pages from Osamu Tezuka’s epic Phoenix series, and hurriedly copied this robot design shape for today’s Thing. His 12-volume Phoenix story depicts literally anything or any place that you’d ever want to learn to draw. He is my illustration Jesus.
[media: sakura sumibrush pen, kimberley pencil, disneyland autograph book](PS: You can also see Tezuka’s Adolf vol. 1 on my shelf if you look closely) UPDATE: I was feeling productive, so I did a version 2 (version 1 was scrawled on a napkin a few months ago) of a 4-panel gag comic I wrote for the back page of comic strips for my zine.
I need to find someone (AHEMcalvin?derek?sophia?AHEM) to do the final version and get the visual preciseness just right.
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haha! that dude’s face in the last panel, the dude with the impressive nose and the swirly cheeks. I’d actually like to see a gag comic drawn by EWE
I agree, you’ve done awesome on your own.
What race do swirly cheeks come from?
hmmm. okay, i’ll try my hand at a final version!
i think the swirly cheeks are “UGLY KID” short-hand I stole from old junji ito comics. I need to figure out how to make the juxtaposition of THE HOTT INTERRACIAL FEATURES in panel 2 baby, with the BAD MIX INTERRACIAL FEATURES in panel 4 baby. without being TOO racist, oh god.
(as you’d expect, this gag spawns from an actual conversation we had while people watching har har)